Agency/supranational - Winner: Fannie Mae
Bookrunners: Barclays Capital, Citi, JPMorgan
Following hot on the heels of the government bailout on September 7, the $7 billion issue from Fannie Mae received...

Treasury secretary Hank Paulson closed the door to systematic US government purchases of illiquid mortgage-backed securities under its $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Programme (Tarp), during a b...

In an effort to halt home foreclosures, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), in conjunction with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, unveiled a programme to ease payment terms for hundreds of thousand...

The financial system has been rocked by a succession of failures and government bail-outs causing stunned counterparties to flee the interbank lending markets.
Despite actions from central banks around...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the US government-sponsored entities, have replaced their chief executives and undergone further management reorganisation after effectively being nationalised by the US government...

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, coming on the back of the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sent market participants rushing to compute their exposures and replace affected hedges. H...

A quant at Citi has revived debate about the changing nature of the profession (www.risk.net/2417747). The scope is narrower, he claims; the job has been dumbed down, and today's quants are little more than programmers. Is he right?